In my last article, I wrote about the problems facing the designation of the "comics medium as art," and the value of changing that conception to one viewing the "comics medium as a language" – visual language (VL). Continue Reading
Comics have a bit of an identity crisis: our culture cannot decide what they really are, leaving them to pay the price both financially and legally. A common remedy for this is the insistence that comics are "art", which is probably the number one expression used to justify their worth as a medium. This statement abounds in comics literature. Continue Reading
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